The Jewish Council of Australia hopes to offer an alternative view to the conservative organisations that claim to speak on behalf of a diverse community
Human rights lawyer Sarah Schwartz is one of the founders of the Jewish Council of Australia, which hopes to provide an alternative perspective to the conservative organisations that claim to represent the Australian Jewish community.Human rights lawyer Sarah Schwartz is one of the founders of the Jewish Council of Australia, which hopes to provide an alternative perspective to the conservative organisations that claim to represent the Australian Jewish community.
“We came together because of the abject failures of many of our Jewish representative organisations in Australia to truthfully portray the Jewish community as being diverse,” says Schwartz, a human rights lawyer. “ to portray Jewish people who are critical of Israel’s conduct, particularly at this time in Gaza.”Historian Max Kaiser, a co-founder of the Jewish Council of Australia: ‘Particularly around times of war … the right takes up a lot of space.
“One post said the council was formed to deny antisemitism, another said we ‘might as well join Hamas’ and a third, sent to a supporter, said ‘not surprised by your support of the Jew Haters Council of Australia’,” they wrote.As an unelected voice that does not claim to be representative, the council has spoken out against “the vicious and escalating” assault on Rafah,and the “moral bankruptcy” of neo-Nazis at a screening of the Holocaust film The Zone of Interest in Melbourne.
There is talk of joining forces with international groups to create a globally connected network of Jewish organisations that support Palestinian freedom, while locally the council plans to work with interfaith groups and politicians.
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